I highly recommend taking a look at this website https://thetruesize.com . You can drag and drop countries over others and compare them by their true size. Take Greenland for example it appears very large on our maps because it is closer to the northpole than other countries. The further you go away from the equator the larger countries appear.
![image showing World Mercator map projection with true country size and shape added [OC]](328d4389-d83a-5c77-9133-7423f42246e1.jpg)
DreadlockWalrus on August 14th, 2019 at 12:42 UTC »
Everyone needs to get themselves a globe and have a real look. Alternatively play around with Google Earth.
Parad0xxxx on August 14th, 2019 at 14:44 UTC »
I highly recommend taking a look at this website https://thetruesize.com . You can drag and drop countries over others and compare them by their true size. Take Greenland for example it appears very large on our maps because it is closer to the northpole than other countries. The further you go away from the equator the larger countries appear.
elleape on August 14th, 2019 at 15:06 UTC »
I knew Greenland wasn't as large as shown on the Mercayor but for some reason just accepted that Russia is that big.